death penalty Tag

Why allow inmate snitch testimony to cause an inmate's execution? Testimony from inmates serving substantial prison terms can too often be expected to be manufactured for seeking to improve their lot, with little concern about the truth. ...

The European Union does not have the death penalty, and the sky has not fallen. The United States, though, continues in the wild, wild west tradition of executions of those convicted of murder. In the wild west, populations were thin; law enforcement agents were few;...

Dylann Roof represented himself at his federal capital sentencing trial phase. He put forth no effort to prevent a death sentence, which helps explain how the jury quickly reached a death sentence verdict (within three hours of deliberation) at the sentencing phase The trial judge...

Ronald Bert Smith, Jr.'s Alabama execution -- discussed separately by me today -- is an example of the fallacy that lethal injection can be assured to be painless. Alabama news reporter Kent Faulk witnessed the execution, and describes the following...

My public elementary school teachers taught us about "Honest Abe" Lincoln. None of my teachers ever taught me about Lincoln's approval for a mass hanging of thirty-eight Dakota Indians in 1862. Arising from the Dakota War, United States military commission trials of 392 American Indians...

How much good was it, really, that Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe earlier in April 2016 vetoed a bill to mandate electrocutions when lethal injection drugs are not available for executions, when all along he was advocating for shielding lethal injection drug manufacturers' identities, in the...

The sad irony of this Scalia law school naming drips all the more bitterly when considering that it is happening with one of the Supreme Court's most stalwart death penalty protectors in one of the nation's most active executioning states. All this sadly is happening...

Jimmy Carter “was thankful that although my profession was that of a military man – commander in chief of the armed forces, prepared to defend my nation with maximum force if I had to – I was able to go through my entire term in...

I have several times blogged against the death penalty. Seeing an execution being carried out against someone who did not pull the trigger and was not at the murder scene is all the more disturbing. ...